@esther capitalism is built on ownership and therefore inequality. The systems we suffer under come out of this engine. You can’t have massive wealth without disgusting poverty. The relative comfort in the global north is also built on obscene amounts of suffering in the south that we never see.
At the same time, it’s riven with untamed instability and crisis used to beat the 99% with and keep them down. Along with actual murder and violence, of course.
@rbreich in Britain they keep reviving the 1970 “wage price spiral” nonsense. The words are the wrong way round. No-one has had a wage rise.
RT @scarletmonahan
Poverty is no longer a hated symptom, it is a carefully crafted Tory weapon. #CostOfLivingCrisis #ToryBudgetingTips #ToriesOut #UniversalCredit 1 #SueGray #Newsnight #TorySleaze
@CyberpunkLibrarian it also shows how durable stuff was before planned obsolescence.
Fuck the economy, I care far more about people.
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RT @ELHopkins
Doing nothing to prevent infections isn’t very bright. We are causing high levels of long term disability. This is causing labour shortages and also adding to inflation. The policy of pretending covid is over is damaging our economy.
https://twitter.com/ELHopkins/status/1622517592995819522
RT @eyes_lilly
"Ninety years on from the Enablement Act that gave rise to the most monstrous political movement in history, Britain is about to replicate the frightful final flourishes from the Nazi playbook on establishing a fascist authoritarian regime..."
https://medium.com/@cormack.lawson/the-uks-enablement-acts-2023-part-1-the-retained-eu-law-bill-2e312a49f0a3
Terrible predatory forces are eating away at the country. The corporatists, militarists and political mandarins that serve them are the enemy. It is not our job to make them more appealing, but to destroy them.
It’s #GreenFootballWeekend - if we’re going to protect the future of the game, we need to protect our planet too. It’s time to stop the sportswashing, & kick fossil fuels out of football ⚽️
@PlanetLge @FossilFreeFoot @pledge_ball
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1621816128795299846
Security agents linked to London mayor Sadiq Khan “spied” on a group of environmental activists and blocked them from participating in a public debate over his environment wrecking plans for a hideously polluting new car tunnel under the Thames.
Vote Labour = Get Tory. It really is that simple.
Come May give voting for common sense solutions to the problems we all face a go instead — #VoteGreen💚
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/environmental-campaigners-spied-on-mayor-london-sadiq-khan-o2/?utm_source=SEGMENT%20-%20Newsletter%3A%20oD%20weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Exclusive%3A%20Climate%20activists%20%E2%80%98spied%20on%E2%80%99%20ahead%20of%20Sadiq%20Khan%20event&_kx=89Tp7Xp6XcwWlc0__vbmAPVJObjimZ7NiJOpC-ko5ns%3D.YjCYwm
'As soon as inflation tumbles the suggestion will be made that there is no need for inflationary pay rises. That, of course, will be nonsense. Falling inflation does not reduce absolute price levels. Only deflation does that.'
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.